わ
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| Character | わ |
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER WA |
| Codepoint | U+308F |
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[edit] Etymology 1
The short form of ware.
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [wa]
[edit] Pronoun
- first-person personal pronoun; I, me
- c. late 10th century Taketori Monogatari
- 「[...]わが丈たち竝ぶまで養ひたてまつりたる我子を、なに人が迎へきこえん。まさに許さんや」と言ひて、[...]
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Kiritsubo)
- かしこき御蔭をば、たのみきこえながら、貶めきずを求め給ふ人はおほく、わがみはかよわく、物はかなきありさまにて、中々なる物思ひをぞし給ふ。
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Utsusemi)
- 女どち、のどやかなる夕闇の、道たどたどしげなるまぎれに、わが車にてゐてたてまつる。
- c. late 10th century Taketori Monogatari
[edit] Derived terms
- 我 (ware)
[edit] Etymology 2
[edit] Particle
わ (romaji wa)
- a particle used in the end of sentences, which indicates admiration or emotion
- あなたの髪は長いわね！
- あなたのかみはながいわね。
- Anata no kami wa nagai wa ne.
- Wow, your hair is so long!
- 今、行くわ。
- いま、いくわ。
- Ima, iku wa.
- I'm coming.
- 知らないわ。
- しらないわ。
- Shiranai wa.
- I don't know.
- あなたの髪は長いわね！
[edit] Usage notes
- In common Japanese, this particle is mainly used by women. In various dialects, particularly western, it is used by both men and women, but with a different accent.
[edit] Etymology 3
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 和 in the cursive sōsho style.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /wa/
[edit] Syllable
わ (Hepburn romanization wa)
- The hiragana syllable わ (wa), whose equivalent in katakana is ワ (wa). It is the forty-fourth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is わ行あ段 (WA-gyō, A-dan; “row WA, section A”).
[edit] Derived terms
- ゎ (small form)
[edit] See also
- For a list of words starting with わ (wa) see: Special:Allpages/わ
- (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ [edit]
[edit] Etymology 4
[edit] Counter
わ (romaji -wa)
[edit] References
- 1997 March 1, Horiuchi, Hideaki; Akiyama Ken, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 17: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0024-0017-4:
- 1958 March 1 [c. 1001-1014], Yamagishi, Tokuhei, Koten Bungaku Taikei 14: Genji Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0014-1:
